Breaking Out

"Senior Sister, do you know how to get out of this Strange Rock Forest?" Lu Nan asked helplessly as he looked at the dead end before them.

Su Wan shook her head. "I don't know! Before this, I only used this place to circle around the Wang Family. I never thought about getting out!"

Lu Nan's mouth twitched. "This time, Senior Sister, you lead the way. My luck is terrible—I always run into dead ends!"

"Alright!" Su Wan nodded and walked ahead.

"This way!"

"This way!!!"

"Someone!" Seeing Su Wan about to rush out, Lu Nan hurriedly stopped her.

"Senior Sister, your injuries have only just stabilized. I'll go!!"

The moment he spoke, he flashed into the bewildered Wang Family group and easily harvested them all.

He then quickly returned to Su Wan's side. "Done! Let's go!!"

"Junior Brother, what cultivation are you exactly???"

Watching Lu Nan effortlessly slaughter Qi Condensation fifth- and sixth-layer cultivators, Su Wan's eyes widened with curiosity.

"Guess?? Hurry up and lead the way!!!"

Hearing Lu Nan's perfunctory reply, she gave a cold snort and continued forward.

Under Su Wan's guidance, Lu Nan slaughtered several more groups of Wang Family members.

Until they finally emerged from the jagged stone forest. Looking at Su Wan beside him, then at the stone forest behind them—

Lu Nan suddenly felt the malice of the world.

"This isn't scientific! Why could you get out by following your instincts, while every path I took was a dead end???"

"Not scientific??" Su Wan looked at Lu Nan in confusion.

"Cough, cough, cough!! Just ignore it, ignore it!!"

Lu Nan laughed awkwardly.

"Let's go!! We need to return to the sect quickly!!" Just as the two were about to take flight, they heard a sinister voice.

"Go? Where do you think you're going???"

Their expressions changed. They followed the voice and warily stared at the old man who had suddenly appeared.

Before they could react, another old man appeared to the east and west.

Along with countless Wang clansmen!!!

Su Wan instinctively shielded Lu Nan behind her.

She whispered, "Those three old men are all early Foundation Establishment cultivators. I'll hold them off for a while.

Find a chance to escape!!!"

"How will you hold them off?" Lu Nan asked.

"I... I have a treasure bestowed by Master!"

Su Wan glared at him.

"You're at death's door, and you're still flirting. Stop arguing.

Neither of you will escape today!!!" one old man said coldly.

Lu Nan looked up. The speaker was the Seventh Elder.

He swept his gaze around at the seventy or eighty Wang clansmen.

He sneered. "With this bunch of crooked melons and cracked dates??

Over two hundred people chased five or six of us, yet you died until only a few dozen were left.

If it were me, I'd just find a block of tofu and smash my head into it. At least I wouldn't be making such a spectacle of myself!!"

"You..." The Wang Family members' expressions changed as they stared at the two with cold eyes.

"Attack! Take down these two fools who don't know life from death!" The Seventh Elder gave the order.

Seeing the crowd closing in, Lu Nan's expression hardened.

He pulled Su Wan behind him and raised a finger to tap his brow.

Then he said in a low voice, "In a moment, I'll tear open an opening for you. Seize the chance and rush out.

Go to the place I told you about and take the two Senior Sisters back to the sect!!"

Without waiting for Su Wan to react, he summoned his Flying Sword and charged forward.

Against these Qi Condensation seventh- and eighth-layer fellows, Lu Nan was like a sword cutting down one child after another.

With every swing of his sword, someone fell.

In the blink of an eye, a vacuum had formed around the two of them.

Seeing the fear on the Wang clansmen's faces, a sharp glint flashed through Lu Nan's eyes.

He suddenly grabbed Su Wan beside him and viciously hurled her eastward.

"Go now!!!!"

The three old men watching from the side turned cold. "You want to leave? Did you ask us???"

As they spoke, they chased after Su Wan.

"I said you can leave, then you can leave!!!! Get back here!!!"

Lu Nan gave a cold shout and swiftly swung his sword, sending out three massive Sword Qi strikes to block the three men.

Seeing the incoming Sword Qi, the three old men's expressions changed.

They quickly dodged, then stared at Lu Nan in startled disbelief. "Sword Intent????"

"Sword Intent?" Lu Nan was also stunned, but quickly came back to himself.

While the three hesitated in fear, he sent out several more Sword Qi strikes with a crack, crack, crack.

He slew the remaining Wang clansmen, leaving only a few Qi Condensation Perfection cultivators clinging to life.

But they clearly would not live much longer!!!

Looking at the countless dead and wounded clansmen, the three old men's faces turned black as coal.

They then surrounded Lu Nan in a triangular formation. "Kid, no matter who comes today, you will die!!" The Seventh Elder's face was flushed crimson.

Lu Nan said disdainfully, "Who dies is still uncertain!!"

Yet his expression was extremely grave as he watched the three men closing in around him.

He quickly pulled out all the Talismans from his Ring.

Slap, slap, slap—he pasted every one of them onto himself, then took out a bottle of Recovery Pills and held it in his mouth.

Raising his Longsword, he took the initiative and launched himself at East Elder.

"Die!!!" Empowered by the Talismans, Lu Nan appeared behind him in the blink of an eye.

He poured all his spiritual energy into the Longsword. The silver-white blade immediately shone with a faint azure light.

A dazzling streak of azure radiance gathered at its tip.

As Lu Nan plunged it into East Elder's body and sensed his aura rapidly fading—

Lu Nan's expression relaxed. As he quickly swallowed the pills—

He darted toward the Eastern Jungle. By the time the other two old men reacted—

Lu Nan had already vanished. The two hurried to the side of the old man whose aura was fading.

"Ninth???"

"Ninth Elder!!??"

A flash of azure answered them. The intense sense of danger made the two instinctively leap backward.

They stared at the azure light on Ninth Elder's body in startled disbelief. Before their horrified eyes—

An illusory Qinglian bloomed from within Ninth Elder's body.

It then transformed into countless sword lights that shot in all directions, while Ninth Elder's body exploded into fragments that filled the sky.

This sight left deep lingering fear in the two men's eyes.

"That kid is definitely more than a Qi Condensation stage cultivator!!!" the two said in unison.

Then the Eighth Elder tentatively asked, "Should we pursue him???"

"Pursue! That brat definitely cannot unleash such a killing move again.

If we don't eliminate him, the Wang Family will one day be erased from the world!!" The Seventh Elder gritted his teeth and said deeply.

The two then turned into streaks of light and chased after Lu Nan.

"Phew! Those two old geezers should have been frightened off, right???"

Beneath a dead tree, Lu Nan did not dare reveal even a trace of his aura as he cautiously surveyed his surroundings.

The move he had used to kill Ninth Elder earlier was the strongest strike he had recently comprehended.

It combined the thrust he had comprehended with the Azure Lotus Strike from the Azure Lotus Sword Canon.

By his estimation, it could at least instantly kill an early- or mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator.

But he had never tested it before, which was why he had chosen the East Elder, whose aura had been the weakest among the three.

Recalling the earlier scene, That old fellow should be dead, right???

But he had been busy fleeing for his life, so he did not know the result.

As he pondered, two figures suddenly stopped in the air above him. Lu Nan's pupils shrank.

He no longer dared let his thoughts run wild, not even daring to breathe loudly.

He did everything he could to diminish his presence.